![]() At the moment it does not look like a good choice for Lion users.Ģ. The SoundFlower code has not been updated for more than a year, so these problems seem unlikely to be resolved soon. However, there are reports of SoundFlower causing serious problems on Lion (examples: one, two), as well as distorting the sound. Some blogs recommend using an app called SoundFlower for this. If you have any trouble with this, post a comment below.ġ. When you’ve finished recording your video, you should connect the QuickTime Player Send Port to the system Receive Port using JackRouter, or else you won’t hear the audio when you play it back. After you double-click these items, they’ll turn red, so it should look something like this:įinally you can go to QuickTime Player and click the red button to start recording. If you’re planning to record a live voiceover, double-click system as well. In the left-hand “Send Ports” column, double-click on the name of the app you want to record. Select QuickTime Player in the middle column (the column labelled Receive Ports). Using the dropdown menu in the Screen Recording window, choose JackRouter as the microphone. Next open QuickTime Player and choose New Screen Recording from the File menu. Click Start.Īnd change the sound output device to JackRouter. Then you’ll see a little window like this. Make sure the option “Auto-Connect with physical ports” is ticked, and press Save. The first time you run it, the Preferences window will open. (Jack 0.89 should be released pretty soon, then this part will be easier.) 2 Right now it’s still in beta, so you’ll have to look at the mailing list messages to find a link to the latest beta release. 1 So download and install Jack 0.89 or later. Sorry.įortunately there is a clever little app called Jack OS X that you can use to fix it. The next part does not work any more on 10.8. In some cases that probably doesn’t matter much, but it’s a real problem if you’re trying to demonstrate an app whose audio matters, like a game. The only trouble is the video doesn’t include the sounds made by the app itself. This works very nicely, and you can record a voiceover using an internal or external mic. The little triangle reveals a menu that allows you to add an audio track from a microphone, and change a couple of other settings: When you choose New Screen Recording from the menu, a small black window appears: The QuickTime Player application has an option to record a screen video: Taking a screen video is very easy, once you know where the feature is hidden. The basic technique still works on 10.8 ‘Mountain Lion’, though sadly the trick for recording the application’s audio doesn’t work any more. I did this on Mac OS X 10.7 ‘Lion’, but I’ve been told it works on 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’ too. I found out how to do it, so here I’m going to explain what I did for the benefit of anyone else who’s trying to do the same. It’s hard to find any detailed information on the web about how to record a screen video without buying expensive software.
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